Calibre Companion as 'branch library'
I was very pleased to see someone making such an app and rushed over and bought it. Now for my three buck investment I will try to influence its features to be exactly what I personally want :) I would...
View ArticleSyntax for nesting functions in program mode
Hi, I'm trying to create a Save to Disk template that will modify author_sort in two ways: 1) Return only the first author 2) Remove any periods (so that they aren't converted to underscores). For...
View ArticleReg Ex Syntax to Exclude Genres - I'm Missing Something Obvious
Dear folks, I KNOW that I'm missing something which should be obvious. I have tags which I want to exclude from genres in generating a .MOBI catalog. For example, tag 02 Fiction has some uses, but...
View ArticleMobi to EPUB: TOC format issue
I am using Calibre to convert Mobi files to EPUB files. The Mobi files were generated by Adobe InDesign 5.5 with the Kindle conversion plugin. The Mobi file has endnotes and a working (linkable) table...
View ArticleHelp! help! help!
i failed to fetch all the news, always with the response like::help: calibre, version 0.8.65 (win32, isfrozen: True) conversion error: failure: fetch news from The Economist Spoiler: fetch news from...
View ArticleRecipe for "Le monde édition abonné"
I appenrently forgot to post my recipe for "Le monde Édition abonné", (Le monde, subscriber edition) here. So here is the link to my current version (on github):...
View ArticleOriginal_MOBI ???
Doing a mass convert and got 10,000 books I want to reconvert to mobi I get the warning about them already being mobi files and OK this - off calibre goes. However, I had to stop process part way...
View ArticleTrying to combine BusinessStandard and Livemint
Hi I am trying to combine the recipes of BusinessStandard and LiveMint in order to get a combined book daily. I am only getting the first paragraph from the feeds and the complete text is being...
View ArticleWhat character encoding am I seeing?
I'm trying to convert a kindle book, and I'm looking at the unpacked mobi html and have no idea what character encoding I'm seeing. The html claims to be utf8, but that is clearly a lie. For instance,...
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Calibre epub reader
Has there been changes to the epub reader? With the latest version of calibre, the reader is insereting a blank page (??) into the ebub just ahead of some files. See attached. Book displays fine in...
View ArticleCalibre recommended by Danish retailer
BookSnob recommends Calibre on thsi page. They do it becasue they prefer the Kindle as a reader but have to sell ePubs because that is what Danish publishers require. Go Kovid!! :yahoo:
View ArticleBook Covers
This message is directed to Kovid Goyal out of admiration for Calibre. There is ANOTHER source of book covers, often of First Editions (for those who maintain a library they re-read) and that is...
View Article1100+ books on Kindle Touch "disappear" from Library
I have about 2200 books on my KT. This morning, for no apparent reason, Calibre .65 took about 3 minutes to inventory the books on my device. When it finished, Calibre showed 1100+ books to be in my...
View ArticleNeed help with Kindle "Adding Books" Expression
PROBLEM: I get caught with adding books that have a book title with an extra dash between words with no space in the title, such as: John Doe - [Hellbent 05] - Get-Smart Robert.mobi Calibre does not...
View ArticleCalibre search bug? - B&N store
Hi, I've just downloaded Calibre and I've noticed that when I search for a book in multiple stores, Barnes and Noble isn't taken into account even though it's normally checked just like Amazon and the...
View ArticleCalibre Server on Mountain Lion
I have upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion and Calibre works fine except for the content server. It shows to be running in Calibre (green balls) but none of my devices (iPhone, iPad, Kindle) will...
View ArticlePutting Kobo Books onto Calibre.
Sorry for the probably obvious newbie question, but this really has me stumped! I already know how to get Kindle books onto Calibre, but I have a few books I've purchased from Kobo that I'd like to get...
View ArticlePage Count
Encountered a proble with PageCount: If a DOCX files ends with an manual page break, PageCount delivers one page only! Kind Regards SandFish
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Try to remove : This item was downloaded by caliber from .... and "Section...
Hello, I am new to this forum but reading you for long time, having a kindle 3 for 2 years. I look at the recipes and your posts to understand, but it is good only when I have only to add rss url, it...
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